The Hungarian Government will begin consultations with the interested parties about social workers’ career models, State Minister for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész said on Monday.
The Hungarian Government will keep an equal focus on both the smallest villages and largest cities, while in public education it will ensure that even the most underprivileged children are given the same opportunities as their peers born into better circumstances, State Minister for Public Education Rózsa Hoffmann said at a press conference in the northwest Hungarian village of Veszprémvarsány on Friday.
During the last three years more than 100,000 Hungarian women have opted for early retirement after 40 years of work regardless of their age, Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész said at a press conference on Thursday.
The Hungarian Rowing Association (MESZ) will receive state subsidies of 9.6 billion forints (EUR 32 million) for the 2014-2020 period, Minister of State for Sport István Simicskó announced at a press conference after signing the grant agreement with MESZ President Tamás Regényi.
According to the Ministry of Human Resources, in 2014 the amount of financial support provided to people with disabilities will be higher than last year. According to current plans, the Hungarian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SINOSZ) and the Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted (MVGYOSZ) are each scheduled to receive 173 million forints, the National Federation of Disabled Persons' Associations (MEOSZ) and the National Autism Association (AOSZ) will receive 168 million forints and 52.5 million forints, respectively.
The Ministry for Human Resources has launched a programme with a budget of 4.5 billion forints (EUR 15 million) aimed at facilitating cooperation between schools in Hungary and abroad that cater for underprivileged pupils, Minister of State for Public Education Rózsa Hoffmann and Minister of State for Social Inclusion Zoltán Kovács announced at a press conference in the village of Nyergesújfalu, northern Hungary.
The Hungarian Government is providing a total of 230 million forints (EUR 766,000) this year for safeguarding the languages, cultural customs and spiritual and material heritage of national minorities, as well as for strengthening their ethnic identities, the Ministry of Human Resources announced.
After reviewing almost 350,000 assessments regarding to the working ability of handicapped and disabled people, Ombudsman for Fundamental Rights László Székely has only found seven questionable decisions, the Ministry for Human Resources said in a statement on Tuesday.
Due to the increase in the minimal wage, teachers’ salaries will also increase from 1 January, Minister of State for Public Education Rózsa Hoffmann announced at a press conference in Bicske.
Miklós Soltész, Minister of State for Family and Social Affairs, accompanied by Hungarian hockey players, visited a social institution located in Polgárdi-Tekerespuszta for disabled people.
Kamera Korrektúra, the contest of television programmes has been held for the second time. The awards have been presented by Mr János Halász, Minister of State for Culture.
A new, state-of-the-art digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was installed at the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences (NICN).
The employment of people with changed working capacity and disabilities is a priority objective, said Miklós Soltész on the 60th anniversary of Szeged-based SZEFO Ltd., which employs a large number of handicapped people.
The Government is continuing to fund the development of crèches, and three thousand new crèche places will be created next year, Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész said at the new municipal crèche in Solymár, Pest County. The day care of 40 to 48 children can be provided in the institution established with an investment of HUF 190 million within the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan.
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog handed over the Award for Nationalities to four organizations and seven individuals on Monday, in the National Museum.
Zoltán Kovács, Minister of State for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources had talks on Roma inclusion policy in Berlin on Tuesday with Romani Rose, head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and Erika Steinbach, Member of Parliament for the CDU party and spokeswoman of the Bundestag’s parliamentary group on human rights and humanitarian aid.
An exhibition on the 1989 Pan-European Picnic, an event that eventually led to the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and the re-unification of Germany, opened at the Hungarian Embassy of Berlin late on Monday.
This year's 40 million Hungarian forint production budget for the funding of theatres outside Hungary will be raised to HUF 50 million next year, in addition to which a new HUF 32 million tender is expected to be launched by the Ministry of Human Resources (EMMI) - Minister of State for Culture János Halász announced at the Cross-Border Theatres Forum held at the National Theatre on 11 December 2013.
At a press conference on the system of teacher assessment and school inspection held on the 12th of December 2013 in Budapest, Minister of State for Public Education Dr. Rózsa Hoffmann declared: „School inspection – external professional monitoring – and the introduction of teacher assessment procedures are key elements of the reformation of the Hungarian public education system”.
A permanent memorial exhibition opened on Thursday in the house of birth of Cardinal and Prince-Primate of Hungary József Mindszenty in Csehmindszent, Vas County.